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Ellis Peters's historical detail is very accurate and very minute, and therefore is not only interesting to read but good for an actor to acquire a sense of the period. And the other thing I think is that an actor lives in the land of imagination.

Everything that you read is an influence on everything you write, and you want to draw as many elements into your work as you can.

I like it when you read a script and there's the part that you show to the other characters and then there's the part that only the audience knows.

When you read any great mystery, recorded in holy Writ, you are to prostrate your Reason to Divine Revelation.

We current justices read the Constitution in the only way that we can: as 20th-century Americans.

But I honestly don't read critics. My dad reads absolutely everything ever written about me. He calls me up to read ecstatic reviews, but I always insist that I can't hear them. If you give value to the good reviews, you have to give value to the criticism.

I just know so many people who have six or seven foreign languages and have read everything and have musical training and they are still dorks.

I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.

I have resolved to pick one novel and just read it over and over again for the rest of my life, because I cannot remember anything anymore.

I'm very comfortable with myself and my sexuality, but it doesn't define me. I also read books believe it or not.

Before I'm a writer, I'm definitely a reader and when I read memoir, I really want it to be true.

If you really hate George Bush, you don't want to read about his hobbies or that he's nice to his friends or that he's good company at dinner.

You know sit with your arm around a little kid and read. It not only teaches them to read but it keeps the family strong.

The green-light meeting, when I first started at Paramount, would consist of maybe three or four of us in a room. Perhaps two or three of us would have read the script under discussion.

In high school, I discovered myself. I was interested in race relations and the legal profession. I read about Lincoln and that he believed the law to be the most difficult of professions.

When I die, my epitaph should read: She Paid the Bills. That's the story of my private life.

We always had lutefisk for Christmas dinner, after which Dad read from the Norwegian Bible.

I think I remember from the offset I said, 'I've visited this territory. This isn't for me.' And then I read the script and I said, 'You know, this is completely something different. This is a whole new life.'

I read less and less. I have not forgiven books for their failure to tell me the truth and make me happy.

I recently read some of the transcripts of Nixon's Watergate tapes, and they spent hours trying to figure out who was leaking and providing information to Carl and myself.

I started off like everyone else does, slogging but having a compulsion to put words on paper. I didn't write or read horror or fantasy, other than children's fantasy, until I was in my teens.

What's an expert? I read somewhere, that the more a man knows, the more he knows, he doesn't know. So I suppose one definition of an expert would be someone who doesn't admit out loud that he knows enough about a subject to know he doesn't really know how much.

So it was just funny to read a script that was just similar to what had been going on in my life.

I was encouraged to read aloud in class and vocalize.

No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.

My background is somewhat unusual, as I trained to be a ballet dancer. I worked in the theatre for eight or nine years as a contemporary dancer. But as an actor one does read Shakespeare and does try to learn the classics.

I think it's so important to feed your brain you know. Sometimes you've just got to read.

Body language is a very powerful tool. We had body language before we had speech, and apparently, 80% of what you understand in a conversation is read through the body, not the words.

There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.

What's funny about that is when I was writing Twilight just for myself and not thinking of it as a book, I was not thinking about publishing, and yet at the same time I was casting it in my head. Because when I read books, I see them very visually.